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Sparrow is still the best mail client for OS X.
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Dec 18, 2014 09:24
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shodanjr_gr posted:Does this also choke like all other email apps when working with large gmail accounts? I don't know what's considered large for gmail, but my work account where I use it is sitting at 5 gigs at the moment and it's fine and zippy. There's a 30 day trial where you can check it out, I'm pretty sure.
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Dec 18, 2014 12:14
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Nut Bunnies posted:Sparrow is still the best mail client for OS X. I believe it, but sadly it doesn't support exchange :'(
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Dec 18, 2014 15:20
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I'm having sporadic performance problems with Windows 7 virtualized under VMWare Fusion 7 and Mavericks where it sometimes just freezes up for several seconds. This has happened with Adobe InCopy CC and Outlook 2013. My laptop is an Air with a Core i5 1.3GHz and 4 GB memory. How much memory and how many cores should I dedicate to VMWare? The default is 1 GB memory and 1 core. Am I wrong to increase this to about two gigs and two cores? How many resources does OS X need to function and to run programs? Are there any settings that make or break Fusion performance?
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Dec 18, 2014 20:28
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It depends what programs you are running. Windows 7 would do much better with 2GB of RAM, but that only leaves 2GB for OSX. That's going to be cutting it close to have a browser full of tabs open, itunes playing, mail.app open, etc, along with VMWare.
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Dec 18, 2014 20:51
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Nut Bunnies posted:Sparrow is still the best mail client for OS X. It hasn't had an update in over 2 years in the app store. It looks like yet another project that was left to rot on the vine after being acquired by Google.
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Dec 18, 2014 23:58
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Has anyone else had an issue with Safari 8 just not feeling like reloading some tabs after a restart? They'll stay blank and activity monitor says nothing is downloading, then eventually they'll be ok.
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Dec 19, 2014 04:27
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So flash version 16 just refuses to download entirely on my mac, always hanging at 33% in the installation process. Does anyone have a direct download link instead?
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Dec 19, 2014 14:43
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Has anyone had a chance to actually get Duet Display to download? If you haven't seen it yet, and I'm not sure how you could have missed it with their media blitz, DuetDisplay is a OS X/iOS companion app that allows you to use your iPad/iPhone as a secondary display for your mac. Awesome for road warriors like me. I bought it yesterday for $10 on sale and have yet to been able to download the actual server software for OS X as their box link has been shitcanned all day. If you happen to have the .dmg still (it's free) and wouldn't mind sharing, I'd appreciate it.
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Dec 19, 2014 14:48
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Dante posted:So flash version 16 just refuses to download entirely on my mac, always hanging at 33% in the installation process. Does anyone have a direct download link instead? You mean for the offline/distributable version? They should all be here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html They talk a lot about having to have a distributable license, but I have no idea where, when (and if) that actually comes into play — I've been able to install from those packages, but I also have a CC license that might just let me do that anyway.
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Dec 19, 2014 14:58
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kyacker posted:Has anyone had a chance to actually get Duet Display to download? If you haven't seen it yet, and I'm not sure how you could have missed it with their media blitz, DuetDisplay is a OS X/iOS companion app that allows you to use your iPad/iPhone as a secondary display for your mac. Awesome for road warriors like me. Downloaded it this morning. Its not bad but a little slow on my air 2 but very workable. It messed up the rendering in Safari and so for now I uninstalled the driver. Also, by default it set my primary display to be the iPad and I couldnt get the cursor on my mbr to show until I made the laptop the primary display.
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Dec 19, 2014 16:51
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flosofl posted:It hasn't had an update in over 2 years in the app store. It looks like yet another project that was left to rot on the vine after being acquired by Google. I think the team is who made Inbox on iOS, but I forget where I read that.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:04
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maduin posted:I think the team is who made Inbox on iOS, but I forget where I read that.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:09
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Misogynist posted:The product was acquired so they could put all the engineers on the GMail product experience, and Inbox was one part of that. Hopefully it was most of that, because GMail itself hasn't seen any user-visible improvements at all in close to 10 years except for Priority Inbox. You mean aside from the email sorting categories (primary, promotions, updates, etc), the content recognition that brings up links to track shipments, check in on flights, and now automatic calendar event creation?
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Dec 20, 2014 01:39
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Fiki posted:You mean aside from the email sorting categories (primary, promotions, updates, etc), the content recognition that brings up links to track shipments, check in on flights, and now automatic calendar event creation? Truly, the fruits of a the last decade are bountiful beyond measure.
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Dec 20, 2014 01:53
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Fiki posted:You mean aside from the email sorting categories (primary, promotions, updates, etc), the content recognition that brings up links to track shipments, check in on flights, and now automatic calendar event creation?
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Dec 20, 2014 02:15
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Which twitter app for OSX is the best? My main complaint is the twitter web page uses a ton of energy, seems to be a bloated mess of JavaScript and I'm tired of it cutting my battery life in half while open all day, anything a bit more efficient out there?
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Dec 20, 2014 06:08
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Tweetbot is good but the developer seems to ignore everything except the iPhone version these days. I think the official Twitter app from the store is decent as well.
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Dec 20, 2014 06:18
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carry on then posted:Tweetbot is good but the developer seems to ignore everything except the iPhone version these days. I think the official Twitter app from the store is decent as well. Yeah, Tweetbot is nice because it will sync with the iOS versions as far as the timeline goes. It's just a shame it seems to be getting ignored lately.
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Dec 20, 2014 07:43
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Twitterrific is excellent, but it's also feeling a bit ignored compared to the iOS version these days. Still vastly preferable to the web site, though.
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Dec 20, 2014 08:11
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flosofl posted:Yeah, Tweetbot is nice because it will sync with the iOS versions as far as the timeline goes. It's just a shame it seems to be getting ignored lately. That seems to be Tapbots' MO unfortunately, they design great apps and then seem to abandon them. Calcbot and Convertbot still don't support the iPhone 5 resolution, Tweetbot for iPad hasn't had an iOS 7 update, now Tweetbot for OSX looks a bit out of place on Yosemite.. I use Tweetbot daily across all three platforms and love it, some updates would be nice but it's worth it for the timeline sync alone.
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Dec 20, 2014 09:31
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Ninja Rope posted:It depends what programs you are running. Windows 7 would do much better with 2GB of RAM, but that only leaves 2GB for OSX. That's going to be cutting it close to have a browser full of tabs open, itunes playing, mail.app open, etc, along with VMWare.
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Dec 20, 2014 21:13
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cbirdsong posted:Twitterrific is excellent, but it's also feeling a bit ignored compared to the iOS version these days. Still vastly preferable to the web site, though. If Twitterrific would update their UI for the OS X version from the ancient version they have in the app store, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Twitterrific on the iPhone is just slick. I agree with other posters - Tweetbot's timeline synching between devices keeps me there. I know they're only a two-man shop, but there's still no Yosemite refresh 3 months after launch, and they put out an OS X version of Calcbot first? C'mon.
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Dec 21, 2014 02:52
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MrMoo posted:I'd like to see more detail on an app that some how forces a maximum minor version. Major versions are acceptable, that is the entire point. This is from a couple of pages ago, but the usual problem is that Oracle has added additional security fixes / blocks in minor versions. If you have an older app that isn't being updated, it may not be runnable at all on a newer version.
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Dec 21, 2014 16:34
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Yeah, the latest Java 7 patch forced things to need security manifests, amongst other things. God help you if your certificate expires. You can bypass all of this by putting an exception URL in the Java system preferences panel for the applet. You can also turn down the security slider, though that is not as effective as it used to be.
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Dec 21, 2014 16:54
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kyacker posted:Has anyone had a chance to actually get Duet Display to download? If you haven't seen it yet, and I'm not sure how you could have missed it with their media blitz, DuetDisplay is a OS X/iOS companion app that allows you to use your iPad/iPhone as a secondary display for your mac. Awesome for road warriors like me. Came as a zip with a .dmg inside: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1bfd11og4fkar8/DuetDisplay.zip?dl=0 Switched it to Retina mode and works really well.
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Dec 21, 2014 18:05
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Anyone have this issue with Steam on a retina macbook? Can't find anything searching Google.
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Dec 21, 2014 20:12
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Steam is just crap. I'm not convinced that anyone at Valve actually does work any more.
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Dec 21, 2014 20:13
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binarysmurf posted:If Twitterrific would update their UI for the OS X version from the ancient version they have in the app store, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Twitterrific on the iPhone is just slick. Over the last few years, Twitter has made a lot of hostile moves toward third party app developers. Hence the stagnation. It's really Twitter's fault, and they're still doing stupid poo poo, like announcing a new historical search feature with no planned API.
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Dec 22, 2014 01:50
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Speaking of which, a friend was playing around with a Twitter API key, and decided to see what he could poke at by swiping the API key from the official Android app. Turns out that some apps are much more privileged with what they can access through the API. http://hastebin.com/ahunodiwex.vbs, for instance.
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Dec 22, 2014 02:24
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Mail for whatever reason started to work again for my gmail accounts. I don't know if that was in the 10.10.2 beta or not, though. Related note, does anybody know how to make it so Mail discards saved emails from the computer without discarding them from the internet? I have thousands of unread emails that I don't want to mark as read but also don't want on my computer. I'm pretty certain Mail doesn't keep all of those emails but at this point I'm really not sure.
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Dec 22, 2014 03:32
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flosofl posted:It hasn't had an update in over 2 years in the app store. It looks like yet another project that was left to rot on the vine after being acquired by Google. It was an acquihire with no intention of continuing development. I still remember the rage I felt when I got that announcement email. On a similar note, Twitter apps outside the iPhone are going to languish since it doesn't make much sense to heavily pour resources in. Twitter's token cap has destroyed any incentive to quickly support third party apps. With that said, Tapbots is working on an iPad update. No word on the Mac version, but it works very well despite looking a bit out of place. Nut Bunnies fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Dec 22, 2014 06:34
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Nut Bunnies posted:It was an acquihire with no intention of continuing development. I still remember the rage I felt when I got that announcement email. I can understand that. What seems particularly lovely is keeping it available on the app store for purchase when there is no intention of maintaining it.
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Dec 22, 2014 06:42
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carry on then posted:Anyone have this issue with Steam on a retina macbook? Can't find anything searching Google.  .
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Dec 22, 2014 11:53
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Nut Bunnies posted:No word on the Mac version, but it works very well despite looking a bit out of place. I've had several instances of UI juddering on 10.10. Also occasional SBBODs. Tapbots are "working on it". Not the end of the world, I know, but their early stuff was such high quality.
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Dec 22, 2014 13:08
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Weird obscure question: in an number of applications, particularly editors, I seem to continually somehow shift the view inside the window so the lefthand side is hidden. For example, it's just happened to me in Sublime Text, hiding the several leftmost columns of chars. This seems to happen even if I widen the window. It can be fixed easily of course by just scrolling back, but it interrupts my flow. Am I hitting some shortcut or accidentally using a mouse action that I don't know of?
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Dec 22, 2014 17:02
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I'm in the process of switching to OSX. Except I'm an IT guy and I've been using Office, Outlook, and Exchange forever. So I keep all my contacts in my Exchange Online (Office 365) account. I've discovered that Exchange Online cannot sync with the Contacts application in Yosemite 10.10.1 and 10.10.2 beta. Which is pretty much driving me crazy and I've had to resort to manually copying my contacts into iCloud for right now. There's a lovely workaround involving the OWA app for the iPhone but it only allows you to sync the main Contacts folder on your account. I have filed a report using the Feedback Assitant. On the plus side, MBPr is the best notebook I've ever owned.
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Dec 22, 2014 17:30
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jmu posted:I'm in the process of switching to OSX. Except I'm an IT guy and I've been using Office, Outlook, and Exchange forever. So I keep all my contacts in my Exchange Online (Office 365) account. I've discovered that Exchange Online cannot sync with the Contacts application in Yosemite 10.10.1 and 10.10.2 beta. Which is pretty much driving me crazy and I've had to resort to manually copying my contacts into iCloud for right now. There's a lovely workaround involving the OWA app for the iPhone but it only allows you to sync the main Contacts folder on your account. I have filed a report using the Feedback Assitant. I recall reading that Microsoft recently released a new version of Outlook for Mac that may help with your woes?
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Dec 22, 2014 19:30
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Unfortunately unless there's a way to have the contacts from Outlook show up in the Contacts app, which I tried to figure out briefly, it doesn't help 
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Dec 22, 2014 20:08
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shodanjr_gr posted:I recall reading that Microsoft recently released a new version of Outlook for Mac that may help with your woes? You can only get this new version of Outlook Mac if you're an Office 365 subscriber..
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